Mystery Monster Galaxy With Runaway Star Formation Defies Theories of the Universe
A "monster" galaxy that formed when the universe was just one billion years old has been mapped by scientists for the first time—and the findings have defied all expectations.
The mystery galaxy—named COSMOS-AzTEC-1—is 12.4 billion light years away and is known as a submillimetre-bright galaxy. These are some of the brightest in the universe and are known for forming stars at an extremely fast rate. They were first discovered just over a decade ago and since then have baffled scientists—according to our models of galaxy formation, they shouldn't exist.
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